The Reserve Affairs Division, under the direction of the Deputy Commandant for Manpower and Reserve Affairs (DC M&RA), directs Reserve personnel actions and implements policies, plans, and programming in order to staff, maintain, and support the Reserve Component (RC) requirements of the Total Force.
1) Manage the inventory of the Selected Reserve (SelRes) to satisfy statutory end strength requirements and meet the manning control strengths for the constituent categories:the Selected Marine Corps Reserve (SMCR), the Individual Mobilization Augmentee (IMA) Program, Active Reserve (AR) Program, and the Initial Active Duty Training (IADT) population.
2) Develop RC manpower policy, plans, programming, and budgeting
3) Support the Ready Reserve (SMCR, IMA, IRR, AR)